and age, that alone is an historic achievement. in money matters this morning, wall street, where leaping stocks have investors jumping. >> we're going to turn the bull loose. >> one of the great things about this nation is, we can seek profit. >> is money the number one goal? >> yes. >> we've had 29-year-olds making a million dollars a year. expecting to make $2 million the year after that. >> but if you've got plastic money, there's nothing holding you back. >> history will prove the bankers were honest people. >> insider trading could become wall street's watergate. >> what do we call greed the day before an indictment?

>> i'm afraid recently we called it success. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ u.s. economy, which used to be the envy of the world, is in the most serious trouble since the great depression. inflation is rising, while the standard of living is declining. >> there was tremendous

inflation, and not much growth. the country was not in a great depression in 1980, but the united states was in the dumps. >> on wall street, it was cold, gray, wet, and miserable. and for investors, there was not much inside. the tickers carried almost nothing but bad news. >> we would come off a terrible decade for investing. people were skeptical of the stock market. it was a very sleepy wall street back then. >> most economists expect a serious recession, with at least 2 million more americans losing their jobs. >> i regret to say we're in the worst economic mess since the great depression. ivlths literally from the first moments of his presidency on, president reagan let it be known that his top priority is the nation's economy. >> i put a freeze on pending regulations and set up a task force under vice president bush to review regulations with an eye toward getting rid of as many as possible.

>> marks work better than government control. >> this bill represents the first step in our administration's comprehensive program of financial deregulation. >> introducing deregulation, finance began to get much more creative and much more profitable too. >> in money matters, wall street, where stocks have investors jumping. >> when the market opens for trading this morning, the dow jones will stand at its highest level ever. >> the past few months have been among the wildest in wall street history. stock and bond prices soared in a frenzy of activity. optimists on wall street are talking about the beginnings of economic recovery. >> the supporters of deregulation point to the soaring stock market as evidence that a deregulated economy makes money for everyone. >> the stock market took off like a rocket. and the public saw this happening, and they would read about it.

and so all sorts of people who used to have nothing to do with this world started pouring their own money into it. that's in large part also what drove prices to go even higher. >> the ronald reagan motorcade rode to the new york stock exchange. >> in the last five years, we've moved from malaise, to hope, confidence, and opportunity. the volume of shares traded hitting record highs and more americans than ever before participating in the market. we're bullish on the american economy. [ applause ] >> when reagan shows up at the stock exchange yelling "ronnie, ronnie," is a way of saying america's back. d that was ronald reagan's genius. he was able to link economic faith to faith in america. >> no sitting president had visited the new york stock exchange before. but it seems safe to say that no recent president would have beaten mr. reagan for the honor if a vote had been taken amongst the floor traders. they gave him round after round of cheers. >> we're going to turn the bull loose. >> the whole world, from reagan's white house on, was basically saying wall street is

the engine of our economy. it represents growth. it represents opportunity. it represents the american dream. so these guys were basically saying, we're going to go do it. >> this is the big draw on wall street, the smell of money. >> this is where the action is. this is the over the counter trading. more than 17,000 daily transactions involving millions of shares and millions of dollars, made and lost here every day. and it's a game for young people. when you get home at the end of the week and you look back at what you've done, sitting at this desk, what gives you a sense of satisfaction? >> i guess making a lot of money. >> for yourself? or for the company? >> for the firm. >> when the economy started to recover and become more vibrant, there was a great sense of exhilaration that we survived this miserable period. let's celebrate, let's party. we have money to spend. >> today it's about fancy

clothes and fast cars and they're called-uppies. but who are these partyiers? >> a yuppy is a person who owns a mcintosh and drinks white wine and that's me. i'm happy a great time. >> a 29-year-old is making a million dollars a year, expecting to make $1.5 million next year and $2 million the year after that. >> for this generation, business is hip, capitalism is no sin, it's in. >> is money the number one goal? >> yes. ♪ ♪ ♪ all of the fun is waiting for you at castle ♪ ♪ trump's castle >> in a world where millionaires are a dime a dozen, there's a new billionaire in town. he's 40 years old, his town is new york city, and he's made his money mainly from manhattan real estate. he puts his name on almost everything he builds, says it's a symbol of quality. but others say it's part of the hype. >> donald trump is the brand, and he is the symbol of a new squash buckling approach to

commerce, entrepreneurship, and conspicuous consumption. >> we definitely do have become celebrities just from being rich. i'll take the trumps as an example. their celebrity is generally that they are rich. >> donald trump has ventured into gambling and professional football and says he could negotiate a nuclear disarmament treaty with the soviet union. >> they say he's land hungry, money hungry, power hungry. >> the power is nonsense. i love the creative process. what about the name of trump city, trump tower we're sitting in, trump plaza, trump castle? >> it sells, mike. all i know -- >> that's all it is? >> it has nothing to do with the ego. all i know is it sells. >> what do you do? >> security. >> we don't need security. go outside. we have people outside. >> leona helmsley was the wife of harry helmsly, one of the major, much bigger than trump, real estate developers in new york. >> i asked for something.

i did not get it from you. i want it. >> you have nothing to do? >> the queen of mean. the idea was that she was so mean because she wanted you to have a great experience at one of her hotels. the reality, she was just mean. >> oh, my. >> it's paradise. he standing here and he says, i'm taking inventory. i own this, i own this, i own this, and that one and that one and that one. >> he plays monopoly but with real buildings. >> they bought this connecticut estate a year ago, 26 acres, 28 rooms for just the two of them. and thisuilding structure is what? >> it's the enclosure of the swimming pool. >> and up top? >> on top we're going to have, of course, a dance floor. ♪ in an old-fashioned way >> she became a kind of symbol of the excesses of the '80s. >> am i comfortable? i make a living.

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this is the way we live now. nice, even temperature. no rain, no snow, no loud noises. music is playing. everything's perfect in the mall. >> in the 1980s, you have 16,000 malls popping up like mushrooms, and they become the high temples of the great american religion, shopping. >> pam and melissa, 15 years old, come to the mall almost every day. they call themselves mall rats. >> i love it.

it's only $24. >> consumerism definitely over in the '80s. people emerged from the '70s from tough economic times and went wow, we can now spend. >> i want you to think about this also. >> that's what is going to set your eyes off. >> the economy started growing, and it was largely a consumer driven growth. but the consumer economy was funded by debt. >> the national bankruptcy rate is soaring. greg and diana, annual income, 3 -- $32,000. they had $12,000 unsecured debt when is they bought a new home, a washer,dryer, and beta max tv recorder, then they went bankrupt. >> i knew i didn't have the money, but if you have plastic money, there's nothing holding you back. >> it was acceptable to have a credit card, more than acceptable. if you wanted to pull it out of your wallet and use it. >> live from tampa bay, florida, it's the home shopping club.

>> americans seemed utterly hooked on home shopping. >> your order has been completed for one of the ruby bracelets. i have you down for two of the plush musical bunnies. >> there are home shopping club parties. like-minded consumers gather together to do what comes naturally. >> i want four of those birds. >> you don't have to leave your house and stuff will come to you. welcome to america. >> give us 300 more people to call on their credit card right now. >> if you and enough people will send me $100 immediately, i need some very quick money. >> go to the phone right now. now! quit talking about you believe in god without acting on his word. now. faith is an act! >> in all, there are 1600 television ministers. of the $1.5 billion grossed annually, just three, pat robertson, jimmy swaggert and

jim bakker took in $500 million. >> the primetime preachers say they need the money to stay on the air, and they need the money -- >> i believe god wants us in the next 30 days to have every one of these bills paid in full, and ptl can live if we pay our bills. >> we can pay the bills. >> as televangelism grows, jim bakker understands that preaching on television is not just about standing up and giving a fire and brimstone speech, he understands in the age of television, the johnny carson approach to televangelism -- being more intimate, showing your lifestyle and your beautiful family is essential because it brings people in. and he's a brilliant entrepreneur. >> and here are jim and tammy! >> their appeal is powerful. last year, a million people

responded to the bakkers' constant request for money. >> how many do you have right now? >> just about 30. >> 30 what? >> silver 7,000 clubs. >> that's $90,000. >> praise god. >> the bakkers have been criticized for their own lavish lifestyle. >> just because i'm a christian doesn't mean i don't like nice things. i love nice things and jim and i work very, very hard for nice things. >> they say the only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys. >> toys like a fleet of luxury cars and a spring of fancy homes from palm springs, california, to south carolina. >> they think by them living well and having rolls-royces, everything will think god is shining upon them and us. and ptl becomes the vehicle for their immediate empire, for their theme parks. >> if we are to be fishers of men, that's what the bible says, we are fishers of men, we've been using some pretty lousy bait. we've just built better bait to reach people. >> you can have a lifetime

partnership with ptl for a one-time gift of $1,000. four days and three nights every year for the rest of your life. >> that mix of god and greed ends up derailing them and leading them to breaking the very rules that they're preaching about. >> television vange lift jim baker has stepped down as the head of the praise the already, or ptl ministry. >> it came because of a sexual encounter seven years ago. >> jessica hahn is to be paid monthly as long as she keeps quiet. >> it turns out jim bakker has been paying off this secretary, and that shakes the evangelical world. >> the evidence indicates that effort and money have been expended to cover moral failure. >> if jim bakker paid jessica hahn hush money, what else has he been doing with the ptl money? >> do you worry about the investigation? >> not at all. history will prove the bakkers were honest people. >> we interrupt this for a special report.

>> jim bakker, the defrocked head of the ptl ministry, has been found guilty on all 24 counts of fraud and conspiracy by a jury in charlotte, north carolina. >> he kept selling lifetime partnerships at heritage u.s., even though he knew they were oversold. for example, the heritage grand hotel could accommodate only 25,000 partnerships, but 65,000 were sold. and for the bunk house partnerships, about 7,000 were sold for a building that had only eight rooms. >> one caller sent them $15 a month for a year. she thought it would help her ailing pain for her and her husband. >> i don't have enough to even live on. >> bakker could be sentenced to 120 years in prison and fined over $5 million. >> i would say i feel sad, but encouraged in god. >> tammy bakker said she can best describe her feelings in song.

♪ on christ the solid rock i stand ♪ ♪ all other ground is sinking sand ♪ it's not over until it's over. >> our lord said go to the whole world and preach the gospel. >> when faith is tested, courage is found.

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star state to visit tycoon, entrepreneur t. boone pickens, the highest paid ceo in the country. even here, wall street is in charge. wall street being a parrot, green, as in money. he reigns over an entry foyer that runs the entire length of the house. and at the end of that foyer, we find this morning boone pickens. good morning, sir, how are you? >> good morning, harry. >> let's go ahead and head into the trophy room, if you don't mind. >> sure. >> t. boone pickens was a texas oil man who became the original corporate raider. he would buy a bunch of stock into company, talk about how the executives needed to be tossed out and make a play to take over the company. >> the company is only 1/20th the size of phillips, buys 5.8% of the stock privately. now he lets it be known that he wants to buy another 15% from the shareholders, and thus gain a seat on the corporate board.

>> there's one thing i want to put in place is that stockholders own companies and management is employees. >> phillips agreed to buy back its stock from t. boone pickens. to stop his takeover bid. the profit to pickens and his partners, $89 million. >> it is no secret you've made about a half a billion dollars through losing on your attempted takeovers. do you go into it anticipating the loss will still stand you very well? >> you never like to lose, but if you lose and make money, well, it makes it a little easier. >> i remember the guy got up and said, i have a question. he said, you're making a lot of money out of this. and i said the shareholders are, too. he said yes, but you're a fast buck artist. fast buck artist? i said, who in the hell would want to be known as a slow buck artist. >> i see it as a free enterprise system working at its best. >> pickens was the first major investor to realize how

undervalued american companies were and what you could buy there. and it was his early tilt at all these famous deals that brought this new reality to the attention of other investors, who followed in his wake and sought to imitate what he did. >> i freely admit, i want to make a profit. >> it is not wrong to want a profit in capitalist america. it's fair. >> ivon beoski made a fortune buying into companies being taken over by takeover artists. >> "forbes" magazine lists him among the 400 richest people in america. estimating his wealth at well over $200 million. >> where's my share of the profits? >> he gave the commencement speech 1986 at berkeley, and he really became famous for one line in that speech. >> i urge you, as a part of your mission, seek wealth.

[ cheers and applause ] it's all right. >> a new found wall street used his words as a basis for some of the dialogue. >> greed is good. greed is right. greed works. [ applause ] >> when michael douglas said "greed is good," there's a cartoon expression. but there's truth to it. there was a sense that it is okay to be greedy. it is okay to maximize your wealth. >> what i want to see above all is, that this country remains a country where someone can always get rich. >> big companies gobbling up little companies. little companies gobbling up big companies. eight years ago, there were 1500 corporate takeovers. last year there were 4,000 involving $200 billion. >> this kind of deal is called a leveraged buyout. the company borrows assemoney u

assets. and the company issues ious. because it's so risky, those ious carry high interest rates, called junk bonds. >> you may not have heard of michael milken, but this 40-year-old wall street whiz is said to be the most powerful financier in america. he brought respectability to low rated junk bonds and used the money to finance corporate raids and takeovers, without mike milken, pickens couldn't have raided gulf, unocal and phillips petroleum. >> he said if you really want to take over gulf, it's going to cost you $13 billion. i said yeah, i get it. and he said, i can get the $13 billion. >> he's the guy that pickens goes to and most people haven't heard of him. >> that's the way he likes it. he doesn't care about publicity and pride. all he cares about is making money, doing deals, and having power. >> he was this shadowy figure that those of us even in the

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>> goodyear won by buying back half its stock and taking on a huge debt. plants were closed and workers laid off. the company pays $1 million a day in interest to 17 banks worldwide. >> these fellas jump out of the closet, shout gotcha, buy up a company with its own assets, dismember it, and erode the industrial base of this country. >> maybe we didn't understand how it worked, but we saw a lot of people losing their jobs. and a few people getting super rich. and the vibe of the culture being, that's cool. >> how much is enough? >> enough what? >> enough money, enough power, enough influence, enough takeovers? >> this is my work. this is what i do. let me do what i do. it's not a question of how much. . it's your daily retreat. go ahead, spoil yourself. the es and es hybrid. this is the pursuit of perfection.

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it was a week to remember. banker's hours posted on the doors of savings and loan institutions in ohio didn't mean a thing. the doors were locked. >> the run on ohio saving and loan began when home state savings bank were besieged by depositors. >> i don't have a whole lot. i'm 79 years old and i need that money. >> i made a decision after weighing several options we had to close all 71 of the privately insured savings and loan institutions. >> they're faced with the dilemma of solving the worst finance natural crisis in ohio history, the worst banking

crisis in the u.s. since the depression. >> in a deregulatory climate of the 1980s, traditional savings and loans, which had traditionally invested in only mortgages, were free to invest in pretty much anything they wanted. >> the entire industry got taken over by entrepreneurs who saw them as piggy banks. >> vernon savings was shut down by federal regulators. saddled with $1.3 billion in bad loans. the owner lived a life of private jets, yachts and mansions. >> they took risks that should have been untenable for a banker. when it all went down, the entire industry went belly-up. >> get in line so we can have -- >> i am in line! >> quiet down! >> i'm going to disburse the whole bunch of you. >> this was the third day on the run on the savings and loan association. >> i have no choice, we have to close. >> i don't think it's right.

it's our money. >> this year, a record 260 banks will go bust. that's almost 800 in the past five years. bad loans to the third world. bad loans to the oil industry. bad loans to real estate developers. >> one of the reasons bankers made outrageous loans was because of federal deposit insurance. if the loan went well, you rake in the profit. if it went poorly, then the federal government picks up the tab. >> with deregulation, the s&ls got into that commercial real estate market and lost their shirt. >> all over the united states, people were building projects for which there were no buyers, mile after mile of these partially completed condos. and they're all on the s&l's books. >> there's something wrong about the savings and loan industry today and it isn't me. >> charles keating was a lawyer who got into banking and was able to buy a savings and loan. >> when keating bought lincoln savings and loan, he used it as a private piggy bank for his own

ambitions, like a hotel that cost $500,000 per room to build. >> that hotel is a magnificent investment for savings and loans dollars, no question about it. >> when the appraisers looked at it, it said it's worth $200 million, not $300 million. irchl irchlts. >> bill black was really the guy who spearheaded going after keating. >> we discovered likely fraud. just really basic things that no honest banker would do. the examiners looked at 52 real estate loans lincoln made. there were no credit reports on the borrowers in all 52. >> on top of that, charles keating has lincoln savings sell uninsured junk bonds and he targets the widows and the retirement community. >> there were 23,000 customers who would buy $250 million of

these bonds. >> we had sold our home in sherman oaks. my husband had a stroke. we moved down here, went to lincoln savings. >> how much? >> you really want to know? >> yes. >> it was $30,000 and for us, that was quite a bit. >> capitalize on this, the bond salesmen were told. the weak, meek, and ignorant are always good targets. >> the regulators were looking shouldr -- looking at this and saying, this guy is a disaster, man, we've got to stop this. but by that time, keating had a construction company in arizona. he had thrifts in california. his tentacles spread out to several states. so he was able to call on congressman and senators and say, hey, get these dogs off my back. >> this morning, the s&l crisis goes to capitol hill, looking into charges against five senators accused of intervening with federal banking officials

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a financial scandal involves investors who make killings on wall street not because of luck or skill, but because of inside

information not available to anyone else. >> this coded document might be a secret earnings report showing disastrous losses or a confidential assessment of future profits. if you are one of the 32 million americans who own stock, such information can either cost you money or earn you money, perhaps millions if you find it out first. in either case, it is illegal. >> the single biggest currency on wall street has always been information. and in the '80s, that information was trading back and forth. and investors were talking to their buddies. they went to business school and law school with who were working on these deals to find out. it was pervasive. >> the s.e.c. says that currently, penalties aren't strict enough. >> this a sious coursof misconduct and at present, the sanction is simply akin to asking someone to put the cookies back in the cookie jar. >> in tonight's money matters, the biggest insider stock trading case ever. >> investment banker dennis levine collected $12.5 million in illegal profits by gaining

advanced knowledge of 54 pending takeovers, and then from a phone booth, he would call an accomplice in the behamas who would buy stocks in the names of two dummy corporations which lef eastbound had set up in panama. >> it was the first time the s.e.c. has been able to nail down insider trader. somebody with a million dollar a year salary which apparently wasn't enough. >> insider trading could become wall street's watergate. >> plea bargaining is now under way with dennis levine. authorities might be able to develop as in of new suspects. >> we start the investigation, and once his lawyer advised him that his in his interest to cooperate, he would give you the information. to him, it was just another deal. >> i think the judge made it clear that he would have given a heavier sentence except for the cooperation. >> dennis levine was one guy doing insider trading and that's not new. but what he did was lead to ivan boski. >> the s.e.c. commission stunned

wall street today when it announced that ivon boesky has been find the largest penalty ever and he has been barred from the securities industry. >> plus he did what he claimed he would never do, use insider information, to buy huge blocks of stock in companies secret involved in takeover deals. >> boesky was a crook. handing bags of cash to people who would give him inside information. >> if we had capital punishment for white collar crimes, i would say he would be a prime candidate. >> he arrived in court to hear himself described as a man whose arrogance has been stripped away. there's no doubt he's become a symbol of what's wrong with wall street. >> the indictment was like the bombshell on wall street. >> what do we call greed the day before an indictment is filed? >> i'm afraid recently, we called it success. people such as ivan were being hailed as heroes.

while they were at the peak of their careers. >> millions of america's smaller investors have been appalled. >> i think they should put them in jail. >> more than 48 cases of insider trading, brought by new york's u.s. attorney general rudolph giuliani. >> he had the aura of being the best man in law enforcement to do it. >> maybe we can't catch all of them, but we can deliver a message, if you do get caught, you are going to lose your liberty and go to prison. >> today, the market was off more than 40 points. this after it was learned that ivan boesky was talking, and then some. >> as one more s.e.c. official put it, this is like arresting the madam of a brothel and finding her private book of clients. >> this guy takes a fall and all over wall street they're practically jumping out windows. it comes out he's been taping his phone calls and maybe private talks for three months. and wall street big shots began

wetting their -- well, you get the idea. >> of course, he was guilty. there was going to be no defense. all he had was bargaining power. who could he deliver. >> levine was a fish, boesky was a shark. who is the whale they're going to catch? >> i don't know. >> drexel burnham? >> i don't know. that's possible. >> in the middle of all this is drexel. a little known wall street firm that shot to the top of the high stake world by specializing in junk bonds, high interest, but also high-risk. >> the commission says drexel and the head of his junk bond department made a secret deal with ivan boesky to make millions illegally. for example, california company wix came to milken's firm and told them it was planning a takeover. he whispered that secret to

bosky before that. but milken betrayed his client and earned $6.5 million more at the client's expense. >> authorities are worried that further disclosures resulting from the bosky affair may weaken public confidence in financial markets and weaken the markets . the markets themselves. >> it's a mad house. >> i guess the bull market's over. >> it's a blood bath down there. >> they're calling it the monday massacre. >> i call it the nearest thing to a meltdown i ever want to see. >> by the closing bell, the dow jones industrial average was down more than 500 points. >> this is a crash people hadn't seen since the great depression. no one had seen the stock market >> losses of more than $500 . billion. october 18, 1987, wall street's black monday. >> that crash was one of the

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we always do. it's a question of, my guess is it's probably 1989, rather than 1987. >> a little gift for the president. >> presidents always get that as a gift after the inaugurals. >> i promise you, when congress tries to raise taxes, i'll say no. they'll try one more time and i'll say no. and if they try a third time, i'll stare them right in the eye and i'm going to say to them, read my lips, no new taxes! >> in 1988, george h.w. bush is running to take on the reagan mantle. read my lips, no new taxes. >> when reagan left the white house, he left george bush holding the bag. filled with an assortment of staggering problems. >> when the president calls, someome running. all agree the savings and loan

crisis an urgent problem. >> could they be bailed out without a tax increase? >> i don't think there is, and that's the conclusion of most people. >> bush had to fill this smoking hole and the only way to do that is pass new legislation. because now we had to start dipping into taxpayer money. >> the only bailout is for depositors, not bad bankers. >> no one needs to worry about one nickel in those institutions. >> this legislation says to tens of millions of s&l depositors, you will not be the victim of other's mistakes. thank you all very much. and now i'm proud to sign this monster. >> essentially, george bush is covering the biggest overdraft in history. >> bush caves. he raises taxes. that kills him politically, but saves america economically. >> listen carefully to this number.

$500 billion. that's the latest estimate of what the failure of hundreds of federally insured savings and loans will eventually cost american taxpayers. >> mr. keating, did you make bail? >> no questions. >> the once rapid growth of keating's failed lincoln savings and loan in california, the majority of bonds bought by seniors, many losing their life savings. >> charles keating was convicted in two trials, but both of those verdicts were overturned, and then he pled guilty to avoid a retrial and was alweout r time served. >> the climate had gone from celebrating the excesses of wall street to condemning them pretty quickly. >> tonight's headline, milken pleads guilty in what may be the largest individual case of fraud

ever to rock wall street. the case which ended in a plea bargain with the government. >> judge kimble said the crimes merited his removal from society, sentencing him to ten years in prison. >> he did go to jail for just under two years. i'm confident when he left, he was at a minimum a billionaire, and quite possibly a multibillionaire. >> the game of monopoly could have been invented for donald trump. but monopoly is a tricky game. when you borrow $2 billion and the economy goes into a tailspin and you can't pay the interest on your loans, the bankers move in. donald's $100 million yacht goes to the boston safe deposit and trust company. his half interest in the grand hyatt hotel goes to banker's trust. his trump shuttle goes to northwest airlines. the man who was the darling of the '80s is seen as a man in

trouble, and he knows it. >> and as far as we can say that the '80s was a period of hedonism and excess, the end of the decade was the hangover. >> it's more like the rich are taking a tumble now. >> leona and harry helmsley were treated as criminals, booked for tax evasion and extortion, the government charges that they levelled their $11 million estate and wrote the cost off as a business expense. >> a former housekeeper said mrs. helmsley told her, we don't pay taxes, only little people pay taxes. she was sentenced to four years in prison, given a $7 million fine and ordered to serve 750 hours of community service. for some, it was too light. >> i have done nothing wrong. i'm innocent. my only crime is that i'm leona helmsley. >> no matter how many white collar thieves get sent away,

no matter lounge how long they're locked up, the public will still be paying for this long after they're out. >> so what did the '80s add up to? we put that question to a fair number of people and more than 95% of them said simply it was the decade of greed. >> we learned that greed may be good. but too much greed is bad. and that sometimes people on wall street get little too greedy but they learn their lesson and they would never do it again. >> some argue that today's bright spotlight on unethical behavior has exaggerated the problem. but there's no denying the problem is real. and if we excuse unethical conduct by saying, well, everyone does it, or it's really okay unless you get caught or it's not against the law, we miss the point why we don't do it, period. the point may be survival.

as if people can live together honorably. if we let lying, cheating, and stealing become an accepted way of life, it's not just a few dollars that will be lost, but the spirit of the country that will be lost. the decision is ours. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com we have intelligent machines creeping into our daily lives. it's going to be a new world out there. >> the popularity of these video games is nothing short of a social phenomenon. >> personal computers, walk-around stereos, automatic cameras, mobile telephones. >> a major moment in the history of flight. >> the experts tell us all of this is just the tip of the iceberg of what's to come. >> there's literally a hyper culture that is developing. almost a cult. >> we are no longer on the verge of the personal computer revolution. we are right in the midst of it, thank you.